Ungrateful Peons

Not surprisingly, Randstad is a business-staffing firm that deals in temps and contractors.

Eric Buntin, managing director of marketing and operations for Randstad, said the survey indicated people had not changed their behavior as office layouts changed, becoming more open, so people heard colleagues talking and knew more about their home lives.

"If you were sitting in your office with the door closed no one would be able to hear you unless you were very loud but if you open the door then people hear everything, blurring the lines between personal and work lives," Buntin told Reuters.

"People are not taking into account that the workplace is very open now and they need to think about that interaction with their colleagues."

Are office layouts changing because of vast impersonal forces like encroaching Ice Age glaciation?

Randstad has announced that

Randstad Holding nv has fully completed the acquisition of the German staffing company Team BS as announced on September 14, 2007.

Sounds like a good fit.